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Memory tools that work with Claude Desktop
Every tool below names Claude Desktop in its own documentation. That's what the vendor says, not something we tested. Each page links to the source.
29 tools · docs checked 2026-11-09
| Tool | Works with (per docs) | Runs | Transport | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCP Memory Service (doobidoo) Persistent memory for agent pipelines and chat clients: REST API, knowledge graph and autonomous consolidation, with remote MCP over OAuth. | Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Claude (web), ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex, VS Code / Copilot, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, Zed, OpenCode | Local or hosted | stdio, Streamable HTTP | Apache-2.0 |
| Supermemory Memory and context engine with an app, API and MCP; hosted, with a documented fully-local mode. | Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code / Copilot, Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex | Local or hosted | Streamable HTTP | MIT |
| Basic Memory Notes-as-memory: your AI reads and writes plain Markdown files you can open in Obsidian, indexed locally. | ChatGPT, Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, VS Code / Copilot | Local or hosted | stdio, Streamable HTTP | AGPL-3.0 |
| MemoryPlugin Hosted shared memory across ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor and 20+ AI tools via browser extension, apps and a remote MCP server; paid, with a 7-day trial. | ChatGPT, Claude (web), Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex | Hosted | Streamable HTTP, SSE | Proprietary |
| claude-mem Captures what your coding agent does, compresses it and injects relevant context into future sessions. | Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Claude Desktop | Runs locally | Unknown | Apache-2.0 |
| Zep Hosted context layer for agents (Zep Cloud). The GitHub repo holds examples and integrations, not the service. | Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor | Hosted | Unknown | Apache-2.0 |
| Qdrant MCP Official Qdrant MCP server used as a semantic memory layer: store and find information in a Qdrant collection. | Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code / Copilot, Windsurf | Local or hosted | stdio, SSE, Streamable HTTP | Apache-2.0 |
| Memory Bank MCP Centralized, remote-accessible version of the Cline "memory bank" file pattern, served over MCP with per-project isolation. | Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code / Copilot, Cline | Runs locally | stdio | MIT |
| Graphlit MCP MCP server for the hosted Graphlit platform: ingest content from many sources into a searchable project. | Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code / Copilot, Windsurf, Cline | Hosted | stdio | MIT |
| Nowledge Mem Desktop memory and context manager with MCP integrations, a browser extension that imports chats, and thread import from coding tools. | Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code / Copilot, Gemini CLI | Runs locally | Streamable HTTP | Proprietary |
| Cognee MCP MCP server for Cognee memory; by default each client gets its own dataset so agents do not overwrite each other. | Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Cline | Runs locally | stdio, Streamable HTTP, SSE | Apache-2.0 |
| EverOS (formerly EverMemOS) moved Local-first, Markdown-native memory layer for agents, with a cloud option and an MCP package (everos-mcp). | Claude Code, Codex, Claude Desktop, Cursor | Local or hosted | Unknown | Apache-2.0 |
| MemoryOS Research memory operating system for personalized agents (EMNLP 2025), with an MCP server. | Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code / Copilot, Cline | Runs locally | Unknown | Apache-2.0 |
| Obsidian MCP Server (cyanheads) Read, write, search and edit Obsidian vault notes, tags and frontmatter over MCP via the Local REST API plugin. | Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code / Copilot | Runs locally | stdio, Streamable HTTP | Apache-2.0 |
| Graphiti MCP server MCP server exposing Graphiti knowledge-graph memory, with HTTP endpoint at /mcp/ and Docker Compose setups. | Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code / Copilot | Runs locally | stdio, Streamable HTTP | Apache-2.0 |
| Memento MCP Knowledge-graph memory with semantic retrieval and temporal awareness, using Neo4j for both graph and vector search. | Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code / Copilot | Runs locally | stdio | MIT |
| MCP Memory (official reference server) Knowledge-graph memory (entities, relations, observations) stored in a local JSONL file. The reference implementation many forks build on. | Claude Desktop, VS Code / Copilot | Runs locally | stdio | MIT / Apache-2.0 (relicensing in progress) |
| MemMachine Universal memory layer for agents with a native MCP server and Python client. | Claude Desktop, Cursor | Local or hosted | stdio, Streamable HTTP | Apache-2.0 |
| mcp-knowledge-graph Fork of the official memory server focused on local development: persistent knowledge graph in local files. | Claude Desktop, Claude Code | Runs locally | stdio | MIT |
| mcp-mem0 (coleam00) Template MCP server for long-term agent memory using the Mem0 library and Postgres. | Claude Desktop, Windsurf | Runs locally | stdio, SSE | MIT |
| mem-agent MCP MCP server for the mem-agent model: an Obsidian-like Markdown memory managed by a small local LLM, with importers for ChatGPT and other exports. | Claude Desktop, Claude Code | Runs locally | stdio, Streamable HTTP | Apache-2.0 |
| Milvus MCP MCP server for the Milvus vector database: search, query and manage collections as a semantic memory store. | Claude Desktop, Cursor | Local or hosted | stdio, SSE, Streamable HTTP | Apache-2.0 |
| MCP Memory Keeper Persistent context management for coding assistants: saves session context, checkpoints and decisions to SQLite. | Claude Code, Claude Desktop | Runs locally | stdio | MIT |
| mcp-memory-libsql Persistent knowledge-graph memory for MCP backed by libSQL (local SQLite file or remote Turso). | Claude Desktop, Cline | Runs locally | stdio | MIT |
| mcp-obsidian MCP server that reads and writes an Obsidian vault through the Local REST API community plugin. | Claude Desktop | Runs locally | stdio | MIT |
| Neo4j Memory MCP Knowledge-graph memory MCP server backed by Neo4j (local or AuraDB), from Neo4j Labs. | Claude Desktop | Local or hosted | stdio, Streamable HTTP, SSE | MIT |
| Chroma MCP Official MCP server giving clients collection and document tools on a Chroma vector database (ephemeral, persistent or cloud). | Claude Desktop | Local or hosted | stdio | Apache-2.0 |
| Pinecone Assistant MCP MCP server to retrieve context from a hosted Pinecone Assistant. | Claude Desktop | Hosted | stdio | MIT |
| mem0-mcp-server archived Wrapped the hosted Mem0 Memory API as an MCP server. Repository archived. | Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code / Copilot, Windsurf, OpenCode | Hosted | Streamable HTTP | Apache-2.0 |
Client support is what each vendor's docs say. MemoryStack doesn't test tools. How to share one memory across your bots.